All About My Brother

"All About My Brother"
Gossip Girl episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 16
Directed by	Janice Cooke-Leonard
Written by	Paul Sciarrotta
Featured music	"It's Good to Be Alive" by Joey Sykes Sonata No. 5 in F Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 24, "Spring": I. Allegro by Nora Chastain and Friedemann Rieger "Say (All I Need)" by OneRepublic "Paralyzer" by Finger Eleven "Shut Up and Let Me Go" by The Ting Tings "U.R.A. Fever" by The Kills
Cinematography by	Ron Fortunato
Editing by	Harry Jierjian
Production code	3T6765
Original air date	May 5, 2008 (2008-05-05)
Running time	42 minutes
Guest appearances
Connor Paolo as Eric van der Woodsen Michelle Trachtenberg as Georgina Sparks Yin Chang as Nelly Yuki Emma Demar as Elise Wells Nicole Fiscella as Isabel Coates Amanda Setton as Penelope Shafai Jesse Swenson as Asher Hornsby Dreama Walker as Hazel Williams
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"All About My Brother" is the 16th episode of the first season of the American teen drama television series Gossip Girl . ^[1] It originally aired on The CW on May 5, 2008. The episode was written by Paul Sciarrotta and directed by Janice Cooke-Leonard.

International titles

• Czech Republic: "Vše o mém bratrovi" ("All About My Brother")

Cultural allusions

• Jenny is seen using Evite to invite everyone to her party. ^[2]
• After publicly humiliating Jenny and Asher, Blair's clique ask her where they're going to celebrate and mentions a Waverly restaurant and the Lower East Side bar, 151. ^[2]
• When Lily discusses seating arrangements for her wedding, she requests a waiter to have Serena seated far away from former New York governor, Eliot Spitzer. ^[2]
• Penelope compares Gossip Girl to Page Six when the blog halts its acceptance of gossip involving Blair and Jenny. ^[2]
• Hazel compares Jenny to Vanessa Hudgens while Blair compares Jenny to Katie Holmes when a rumor implying Asher's alleged homosexuality spreads. ^[2]
• Frustrated with Gossip Girl's choice of halting her publishing of gossip involving her and Jenny, Blair expresses to Dan how Gossip Girl's credibility is now similar to an inebriated Tinsley Mortimer. ^[2]
• Jenny reveals that Dan wears L.L.Bean pants. ^[2]
• Lily discusses hiring both wedding planner Preston Bailey and noted cake-maker Sylvia Weinstock for her wedding. ^[2]

Reception

"All About My Brother" was watched by 2.12 million of viewers, ^[3] the least watched episode of the series to be aired in 2008.

The episode received generally favorable reviews. BuzzSugar gave the episode a positive review, and praised Leighton Meester's performances by saying that "Blair was on fire". She said that the "surrender of Little J to Blair was", in her own words, "classic". ^[4] Jacob from Television Without Pity also gave the episode a positive review, claiming that the episode was as a whole "awesome", and that the final scene of Serena saying to Blair that she killed someone as a great surprise for the episode. ^[5] Isabelle Carreau from TV Squad had used the word "OMFG" to describe how great the episode was, and that "the suspense" of Serena's storyline was "killing" her. ^[6]

References

1. "Gossip Girl Episode Listings". The Futon Critic . Retrieved March 20, 2011.
2. "'Gossip Girl' Blows Our Minds". New York . May 20, 2008. Archived from the original on April 14, 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
3. "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. May 13, 2008. Retrieved July 5, 2009.
4. "Gossip Girl Rundown: Episode 16, "All About My Brother"". BuzzSugar . May 6, 2008. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
5. Jacob (May 6, 2008). "When You Were a Fever". Television Without Pity . Archived from the original on May 29, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
6. Carreau, Isabelle (May 6, 2008). "Gossip Girl: All About My Brother". TV Squad . Retrieved July 22, 2010.

External links

• "All About My Brother" at TheCW.com
• "All About My Brother" at IMDb